A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Groups
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity. Forthcoming 2018.
Armstrong, David, W. Gordon Lawrence, Robert M. Young. Group Relations: An Introduction.
http://www.psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com/human_nature/papers/paper99.html
2010
Blumer, Herbert. "Psychological Import of the Human Group." In Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism. 1969. Berkeley: U of California P, 1986. 101-16.*
Caporael, Linnda. "El animal grupal: Entrevista a Linnda Caporael." Interview by Javier Moreno. La Nueva Ilustración Evolucionista 23 March 2009.*
http://ilevolucionista.blogspot.com.es/2009/03/el-animal-grupal-entrevista-linnda-r.html
2013
Devine, P. G., S. R. Evett and K. A. Vasquez-Suson. "Exploring the Interpersonal Dynamics of Intergroup Contact." In Handbook of Motivation and Cognition: The Interpersonal Context. Ed. R. M. Sorrentino and E. T. Higgins. New York: Guilford Press, 1996. 3.423-64.
Freud, Sigmund. Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse 1921.
_____. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Vol. 18 of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. James Strachey. London: Hogarth, 1953-74.
_____. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. New York: Bantam, 1965.
_____. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. 1921. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Vol 18. London: Hogarth Press / Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1955.
_____. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion: Group Psychology, Civilization and Its Discontents and Other Works. Trans. James Strachey et al. Ed. Albert Dickson. (Pelican Freud Library). London: Penguin-Pelican, 1985. Rpt. (Penguin Freud Library, 12). London: Penguin, 1991. 91-178.* (I. Introduction. II. Le Bon's Description of the Group Mind. III. Other Accounts of Collective Mental Life. IV. Suggestion and Libido. V. Two Artificial Groups: The Church and the Army. VI. Further Problems and Lines of Work. VII. Identification. VIII. Being in Love and Hypnosis. IX. The Herd Instinct. X. The Group and the Primal Horde. XI. A Differentiating Grade in the Ego. XII. Postscript).
_____. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. 1921. In Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion. Vol. 12 of Selected Works. Harmondsworth: Penguin 1991.
_____. "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego." In Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
García Landa, José Ángel "Sobre la idea de creencia." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 3 Oct. 2016.* (Beliefs; Shibboleths; Gustavo Bueno, Interaction, Group dynamics).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/sobre-la-idea-de-creencia.html
2016
_____. "Sobre la idea de creencia." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 3 Oct. 2016.*
http://www.ibercampus.es/sobre-la-idea-de-creencia-33758.htm
2016
2024
_____. "Sobre la idea de creencia (On the Notion of Belief)" SSRN 7 May 2019.*
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3368214
2019
_____. "Sobre la idea de creencia." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 June 2019.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2019/06/sobre-la-idea-de-creencia.html
2019
_____. "Sobre la idea de creencia." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 5 Jan. 2023.*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/sobrelaidea.pdf
2023
_____. "Sobre la idea de creencia." Academia 19 March 2026.*
https://www.youtube.com/live/elGq4npOd5w
2026
_____. "Grupos de investigación o de apoyo mutuo (El Rectorado debe aclarar su obligatoriedad)." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 12 March 2009.*
http://www.ibercampus.es/articulos.asp?idarticulo=14448
2013
_____. "Equipos y sujetos (… al equipo)." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 14 Nov. 2009.* (Goffman).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2009/11/equipos-y-sujetos-al-equipo.html
2009
_____. "Buen rollito y disidentes." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 26 Nov. 2009.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2009/11/buen-rollito-y-disidentes.html
2009
_____. "Defensa de la selección de grupo." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 5 August 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/defensa-de-la-seleccion-de-grupo.html
2012
_____. "Por qué deshumanizamos a los demás." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 Feb. 2013.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/por-que-deshumanizamos-los-demas.html
2013
_____. "Herederos con peligro." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 June 2013.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/herederos-con-peligro.html
2013
_____. "Gestión de alianzas grupales: Creencias y shibboleths." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 Dec. 2021.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/12/gestion-de-alianzas-grupales-creencias.html
2021
Giddens, Anthony. "Groups and Organizations." In Giddens, Sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press, n.d. 274-99.* (Bureaucracy, discipline, corporations, etc.).
Goddard, Victoria. "Honour and Shame: The Control of Women's Sexuality and Group Identity in Naples." In The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. Ed. Pat Caplan. 1987. London: Routledge, 1989. 166-92.*
Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Edinburgh: Social Sciences Research Centre, U of Edinburgh, 1956.
_____. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Rev. ed. Garden City (NY): Doubleday-Anchor, 1959.*
_____. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin-Pelican Books, 1971.
_____. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
_____. La Mise en scène de la vie quotidienne. Paris: Minuit, 1973.
_____. La presentación de la persona en la vida cotidiana. (Biblioteca de sociología) Madrid: Murguía; Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 1987.
Gómez-Jacinto, Luis. "Comparación social y autoevaluación desde un enfoque evolucionista." Escritos de psicología 7 (2005): 2-14.*
http://webdeptos.uma.es/psicologiasocial/luisgomez/Comparaci%F3n%20Social%20-%20Luis%20G%F3mez.pdf
2011
Hewstone, Miles, and Howard Giles. "Social Groups and Social Stereotypes." In Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. Ed. Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997. Rpt. Palgrave. 270-83.*
Kniffin, K. M., and D. S. Wilson. "Utilities of Gossip across Organizational Levels: Multilevel Selection, Free-riders, and Teams." Human Nature 16 (2005): 278–92.
Kruger, Daniel J., et al. "You Can't Root for Both Teams! Convergent Evidence for the Unidirectionality of Group Loyalty." Evolutionary Psychological Science. Online at Springer 22 Oct. 2018.*
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-018-0178-0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-018-0178-0
2018
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien. "I. La solidarité de l'individu avec son groupe." In Lévy-Bruhl, L'Âme primitive, in Primitifs. Paris: Analet, 2007. 479-508.* (Kinship, Classifications, Totems, Taxonomy).
_____. "II. La solidarité des membres du groupe social entre eux." In Lévy-Bruhl, L'Âme primitive, in Primitifs. Paris: Analet, 2007. 509-32.* (Siblings, Murder, Feuds, Marriage, Property).
_____. "VI. L'immanence du groupe dans l'individu." In Lévy-Bruhl, L'Âme primitive, in Primitifs. Paris: Analet, 2007. 615-34.* (Totems).
Llinares García, Mar. "Grupos cerrados, conocimientos ocultos. Una perspectiva antropológica." Arbor (2008).
Malo, Pablo. "Instintos coalicionales." Evolución y neurociencias 15 Sept. 2019.*
https://evolucionyneurociencias.blogspot.com/2019/09/instintos-coalicionales.html
2019
McGarty, Craig, et al. Stereotypes as Explanations: The Formation of Meaningful Beliefs about Social Groups. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Miller, James Grier. Living Systems. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. (Functions: cell, organ, organism, group, organization, society, supranational system)
Morales, José Francisco. "La identidad social." Interview by Javier Moreno. La Nueva Ilustración Evolucionista 29 Nov. 2011.
http://ilevolucionista.blogspot.com.es/2011/11/la-identidad-social-entrevista-jose.html
2013
Nemeth, Charlan Jeanne, and Jack A. Goncalo. "Influence and Persuasion in Small Groups." Ch. 8. Of Persuasion: Psychological Insights and Perspectives. Ed. Timothy C. Brock and Melanie C. Green. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage, 2005. 171-94.*
Ritzer, George. "Symbolic Interactionism." In Ritzer, Contemporary Sociological Theory. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992. 187-231.* (G. H. Mead; Interaction, Choice, Groups, Self, Blumer, Method).
Schurtz, Heinrich. Altersklassen und Männerbünde. Berlin, 1902.
Shirky, Clay. "Social Software and the Politics of Groups." Clay Shirky's Writings about the Internet 9 March 2003.
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html
2005
_____. "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy." Clay Shirky's Writings about the Internet. 2003.
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
2003
_____. "Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software." Clay Shirky's Writings about the Internet 5 Nov. 2004.
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_user.html
2005
Simmel, Georg. Conflict: The Web of Group Affiliations. Glencoe (IL): Free Press, 1955.
_____. Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliation. Trans. Kurt H. Wolff. New York: Free Press, 1964.
Spiegelberg, Herbert. "On the Right to Say 'We': A Linguistic and Phenomenological Analysis." In Phenomenological Sociology. Ed. George Psathas. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1973. 129-56.
Tajfel, Henri. Social Identity and Intergroup Relations. (European Studies in Social Psychology).
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. "The Most Intolerant Wins." From The Skin in the Game. Online at Medium 14 Aug. 2016.*
2018
Tiger, Lionel. Men in Groups. New York: Random House, 1968.
Tooby, John. "Coalitional Instincts." Edge 22 Nov. 2017.* (Belief, Affiliation, Groups, Conflicts).
https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_tooby-coalitional-instincts
2021
Turchin, Peter. Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. Amazon Kindle, 2015. (Competition, Cooperation, Groups, Society, Human evolution, Masculinity, Kings, Power, Violence).
_____. Ultra Society: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. Chaplin (CT): Beresta Books, 2016.*
Volkan, V. The Need to Have Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relations. Hillsdale (NJ): Jason Aronson Press, 1988.
Watanabe, Suwako. "Cultural Differences in Framing: American and Japanese Group Discussions." In Framing in Discourse. Ed. Deborah Tannen. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 176-208.
Wilson, David Sloan. This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution. New York: Penguin Random House - Pantheon, 2019.*
Wilson, D. S., E. Ostrom, and M. Cox, "Generalizing the Core Design Principles for the Efficacy of Groups." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming 2013).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.010.
2013
Wilson, D. S., C. Wilczynski, A. Wells, and L. Weiser. "Gossip and other Aspects of Language as Group-level Adaptations." In Cognition and Evolution. Ed. C. Heyes and L. Huber. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, 2000. 347–365.
Wolman, Benjamin B. "XIII. Teoría del campo." In Wolman, Teorías y sistemas contemporáneos en psicología. Barcelona: Martínez Roca, 1979. 523-84.* (1. Teoría del campo contra teoría de la clase; 2. Los conceptos matemáticos de Lewin; 3. Construcciones lógicas de Lewin; 4. Locomoción: teoría de la conducta; 5. Teoría de la personalidad; 6. Dinámica del grupo; 7. Teoría del campo como experimento de la elaboración de teoría).
Internet resources
Google Groups
2017
Video
Alarcón Díaz, Daniel. "La 'sociología en general' y la sociología de la religión." Video lecture. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 30 Oct. 2023.* (Durkheim; Institutions; Social phenomena, social structures, functionalism, Norms, Social engineering, Method and theory, praxis, roles and group dynamics, social relationships, Anthropology)
2023
Dawkins, Richard. "The Purpose of Purpose." Lecture, March 2009. YouTube (Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science) 19 June 2009.* (Goals, Groups, Culture, Action, Natural selection).
2013
Fidalgo, Alex. "El Colapso Moral: Cómo La Sociedad Justifica El Asesinato - Pablo Malo." Video interview. YouTube (Alex Fidalgo) 18 Sept. 2025.* (Conflicts, Groups, Cooperation, Sectarianism, Morals, Punishing, Empathy, Evolutionary psychology).
2025
Krier, Dan. "Sociological Theory: Skeleton Key 1 to Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life." Video lectures. YouTube (Dan Krier) 29-30 Sept., 2 Oct. 2021.* (Totemism, the Sacred, Social structure, cohesion and belonging, Rituals)
2024
Lopes, Ricardo. "#675 David Sloan Wilson: Religion, Multilevel Selection, Group Selection and Designing Society." Video. YouTube (The Dissenter) 8 Sept. 2022.*
2022
Malo, Pablo. "Thinkglao#85 con Pablo Malo - Las Dos Caras de la Moralidad." Video. YouTube (It's Time to Think) 7 July 2024.*
2026
Weinstein, Bret, et al. "Bret Weinstein on Israel-Palestine, Antisemitism, and Jewish Identity – Part 2." Video interview. YouTube (Dad Saves America) 19 Sept. 2025.* (Antisemitism, Conspiracies, Conflicts, Cooperation, Group selection, Dawkins, Communities, Natural selection).
2025
See also Social class; Social life and relations; Leaders; Gangs; Gatherings; Homosociality.